Dickie Dale
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| Nationality |  British | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 April 1927 Frampton, England | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 30 April 1961 (aged 34) Bonn, West Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Richard H. Dale (25 April 1927 – 30 April 1961), known as Dickie Dale, was a
RAF and served as a flight mechanic, and bought his first motorcycle, a 1939 AJS Silver Streak, while stationed at RAF Cranwell.[1]
He competed in the inaugural
V8 Grand Prix bike. He died on the way to hospital in a helicopter, after crashing during the 1961 Eifelrennen race at the Nürburgring in West Germany.[3]
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